Giuliani Was In Talks To Represent Ukrainian Ministry While Digging For Trump Dirt There | Talking Points Memo

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Rudy Giuliani almost represented Ukraine, the country, as a client while he searched for dirt there on President Donald Trump’s behalf.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1265525
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Which Kremlin-associated mobster is paying Rudy’s massive expenses?

Fun Fact: While Ghouliani is Cockholster’s personal lawyer, Toadglans doesn’t personally pay him. Neat trick.

ETA While answering that please tell us who paid off Kav the Spaz’s mortgage, credit cards and myriad other debts.

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Ukraine’t make this stuff up…

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Nice nation you have there. It would be a shame if something happened to it.

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I don’t think that Ghouliani got the message that Zelensky won his election on a platform of being against corruption. He’d frankly have saved himself a ton of trouble if he’d only pay attention and follow the law.

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So when Rudy is indicted, how will Donnie play it?

  1. “He has been treated very unfairly, so I plan to grant him a full pardon if he’s convicted.” … or …
  2. “I don’t really know him very well. I only met him once or twice.”
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Why is it that dudes who wear pinky-rings are always elbow deep in crime?

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Rudolph William Louis Giuliani, President, Sleazebags ‘R’ Us

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Rudy never met a conflict of interest, or a grift, he didn’t like.

Jeez Louise, Rudy. You’re such an f’ing tool.

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Why is this coming out now? Is it is an attempt to support Trump’s baseless claim that he didn’t ask anything of Rudy vis a vis Ukraine? Is this Trump throwing Rudy overboard and into the swamp? Or is this from someone associated with SDNY, in which case, why isn’t he in handcuffs?

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Aren’t there any Ukrainian lawyers in Ukrain?

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So corrupt people in Ukraine, one of the most corrupt countries in the world, went looking for corrupt people in the U.S., and they found them in spades. Doesn’t appear that they had to look too hard, either.

Apparently Rudy has a standard “corruption contract” word document on that giant iPad of his.

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I’m guessing it’s more information and insights courtesy of Lev Parnas. He’s making sure that if Lev goes down, Rudy goes down.

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You just can’t trust the guys you hire to do crimes anymore. Such a shame…

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Ihor Kolomoyskyi was behind Zelensky’s win. He’s a mobbed up oligarch, with a string of criminal complaints, shady business deals, and alleged assaults and murders going back many years. Zelensky is not the crime fighting choir boy he’s portrayed.

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I hope you’re right because it would suggest Parnas has at least some credibility since Rudy basically confirmed the story.

Now let’s hear those tapes!

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If these are from the Jan-Feb timeframe, that predates Zelensky’s election. So the message hadn’t been delivered yet and Poroshenko’s admin, Zelensky’s predecessor, was much more accommodating.

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Pretty much makes him a Foreign Agent, or at least a wannabe, doesn’t it?

And $300K?

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Giuliani representing…

…anyone who’d pay him a buck.

No loyalty. Not to any person, any country, or any religion.

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None who ‘personally’ represent the POTUS

Giuliani was influence peddling on a very grand scale.

It’s one more piece of a larger story which has already become fairly clear: Giuliani running private diplomacy for the President’s financial and political interests and charging virtually everyone whose path he crossed fees for access to the President and the power Giuliani seemed to have over US policy.

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